The Architectural Model – Tool, Fetish, Small Utopia - Couverture rigide

Schmal, Peter

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 385881346X ISBN 13 : 9783858813466

Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 2012

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A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

This book is the result of pioneering research work at the Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM, German Museum of Architecture) in Frankfurt-on-the-Main. Investigated is the architectural model as distinct means and method of creating and presenting architecture or architectural ideas and concepts, rather than the model merely representing a specific building e.g. as part of an architect's oeuvre. While architectural photography and drawing has been subject of countless exhibitions and publications, no comparable research on the architectural model has been done so far. This book coincides with an exhibition at the DAM in summer 2012. The authors and curators have drawn from the museum's own vast collection of models created by over 400 architects from 25 countries. The book presents 100 models, featuring works of renowned architects such as Norman Foster, Arata Isozaki, Louis I. Kahn, Rem Koolhaas, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Frei Otto, Aldo Rossi, Skidmore Owings & Merrill and James Stirling. The images are complemented by detailed descriptions of each item and by comprehensive essays on the results of the entire research project.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Peter Cachola Schmal, born 1960 in Germany, took his degree in architecture at the Technische Universitat Darmstadt. He has been working as an architect and freelance architectural publicist 1989-2000 and as a curator at the Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM) in Frankfurt on the Main. He was appointed director of the DAM in 2006. Oliver Elser, born 1972, graduated in architecture at the Technische Universtat Berlin. He has been working as a research assistant at Technical University in Graz (Austria) 2006-07 and also as a freelance architecture critic and contributor to various exhibition catalogues and books. He has been a curator at the Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM) in Frankfurt on the Main since 2007. Also features essays by Oliver Elser, Rolf Sachsse, Peter Cachola Schmal, Philip Ursprung, Sandra Wagner-Conzelmann and Christiane Weber.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: University of Chicago Press
• Date d'édition: 2012
• ISBN 10: 385881346X
• ISBN 13: 9783858813466
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 360